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The Deviled Egg Made Me Do It

Hallelujah, the deviled egg we had as a snack yesterday, pushed Tony over the edge. He is no longer a believer. In his words, “Looking at week three of Atkins, we can only increase our carbs by five grams; so we can add a berry and a nut! It’s not natural.”

I have lost 10 pounds in 10 days, so I can’t complain, but if we stayed on Atkins another day, one would probably find us hiding in a dark corner on our bedroom floor cramming pie (with FRUIT!) down our throats.

I have at least one friend who is saying, “I told you so,” right now.

Kelly just lost 20 pounds on Jillian Michaels’ diet, and Kelly looks and feels great, so we are going to give that a try. I already own Jillian’s book (Tony now understands our shelf devoted to diet books ).

We made the decision to convert to Jillianism at the track. We were exhausted and completely depleted of energy which I think is the gist of Dr. Atkins’ theory: no carbs + no energy = the body must burn fat. Nonetheless, I could barely jog four laps ( a marathon is 105 laps!) and the thought of eating meat made me sick.

We managed two miles and then Tony said, “I think we should eat fruits and vegetables – what do you think?” He had a lot more to say including, “I think Jillian has a better body than Dr. Atkins,” and the decision was final.

We went out to dinner and exercised our non-Atkins influenced free will; I had a curry soup and an Indian spinach salad with slivers of apple (forbidden in Induction) and it was heavenly!

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4 thoughts on “The Deviled Egg Made Me Do It”

Hey Julie, I have enjoyed your blogs……..Let me ask you something, if “diets” worked do you think there would be 100000000 diets? I suppose people are looking for the magic answer, perhaps easier than the alternative; EXERCISE and a way of life eating. In my opion Julian Michaels is a smart regimen to live by. I have been a gym rat/ personal trainer/ healthy food cosumner forever, besides drinking alot of water and sticking to whole organic foods and raw veggies and fruits…….its not too complicated. Thankyou for the birhday message, yours is in August, is that right

Do you have any suggestions regarding workouts/gyms? We’ve always gone to the YMCA, community college, and/or recreation center gyms. However, I noticed there are several different “gym” options in our new neighborhood that I have heard of, but don’t know much about. For example, there is a “Crossfit” gym (I don’t even know if gym is the right term) and I have a friend who swears by Crossfit although I obviously have no idea what it is. My goal is to find someplace I like and that I’m not uncomfortable because I will be the largest person there (that’s why I like the YMCA, but the Y is pretty far from our new place).

I loved this title. Your titles are all so catchy. I’ve always felt Deviled Eggs would one day take over the world. Seriously though, I’m just poking around your blog because I just get a little time here and there and wanna read more. I’ve given up on diets. When i was in high school I was writing a novel called “Diary of a Fat Girl.” I weighed about 30 lbs less than I do now…but I thought I was overweight. Damn, I wish I had appreciated my adorable body when I had it.

I think my favorite post is The Flight Attendant. The no carbs posts and feathering the nests post were written when I was feeling compelled to write, but didn’t have much to say (especially since the dieting flopped and now I’ve gained back the ten plus five more). I like the Thailand posts, the Ralpihie posts (which you might like because you have a teenager) . . . . Thanks for poking around!